ImTheCaptain
I disagree with you
it's too big, too abstract, too complex to understand
it's too big, too abstract, too complex to understand
With respect, I consider this argument a semi-conscious excuse. Taxes and healthcare are complex and big, and abstract until you're looking at bills. Besides, it's a pretty simple narrative - we have one environment, we need it in order to survive and thrive, and very tangible actions are being taken that actively undermine its health. We have scientists that we can and should trust as an entirety (notwithstanding each individually) to inform us of dangers, and they are SCREAMING at us about dangers. It's not difficult to see that there is a problem and that it should be addressed with fervor.
im not being flip, but we're talking about the same kinds of people who think changing rotating tires or cleaning out their chimney is dumb because "they never had a problem"
If that's the case, I would argue that a poorly-informed populace is the problem, not the issue itself or the way it's presented to the populace.
As with almost everything, the abandonment of public education investment is killing us.
i don't think so, it's definitely a narrative problem. my wife, who in many ways is an excellent ambassador/communicator relative to her colleagues, still recoils when she hears non-scientists recommend simplifications or 'narrative-based' communication suggestions as ways to improve understanding for the layman.
Collin O'Mara, president of the National Wildlife Federation, told the Post that neither administration had gotten it right: The interpretation was too broad before, and now it is too narrow.
Fuck Donald Trump.